About this book

Introduction

These lectures are meant to be a reference and handbookfor an introductory course in Theoretical ParticlePhysics, suitable for advanced undergraduates or beginning graduatestudents. Their purpose is to reconcile theoretical rigourand completeness with a careful analysis of more phenomenologicalaspects of the physics. They aim at filling the gapbetween quantum field theory textbooks and purelyphenomenological treatments of fundamental interactions.

The first part provides an introduction to scatteringin relativistic quantum field theory. Thanks to an originalapproach to relativistic processes, the relevant computationaltechniques are derived cleanly and simply in the semi-classicalapproximation. The second part contains a detailed presentation ofthe gauge theory of electroweak interactions with particularfocus to the processes of greatest phenomenological interest.

The main novelties of the present second edition are a more completediscussion of relativistic scattering theory and an expansion of thestudy of the corrections to the semi-classical approximation,including important processes in LHC physics. The extension of thestandard model to include neutrino masses and oscillations is alsodiscussed, and updated with new results.